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U.S. federal agency that conducts scientific research and monitoring on natural hazards, water, ecosystems, and land resources, such as earthquakes and floods.
Shedd Aquarium, Arkansas State and USGS biologists used DNA to name five new Obovaria mussel species from rivers in six southern US states. The authors say each is rare and range-limited, so protecting North America's most imperiled animals has to be planned region by region.
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Microsoft Research's machine-learning pipeline turns solar-wind forecasts into risk estimates for 66,935 U.S. substations, 30 to 60 minutes ahead. Its scores come from forecasts of fast magnetic-field change, so acting on a warning at a particular substation still needs a field test.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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EOG's chairman says Abu Dhabi rock looks like the Eagle Ford and the first wells are beating expectations. The constraint on everyone copying him is a generation of engineers who have never drilled a dry hole.
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A small, routinely active volcano between Java and Sumatra produced a day of explosive eruption whose effects on flying and on air quality took several days to clear, and the flight tally in circulation comes from news reports.
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The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says 2026 set a record for objects retrieved from the park's geysers and hot springs. The count measures how much the geology crew got back out, not how much visitors dropped in.
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Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are placing ocean-bottom sensors on the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, where batteries and atomic clocks replace the solar panels and GPS that a land station would use, to record how the fault behaves now.
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Yttrium's export rules survived the Busan truce, and the two shipments the United States has received since February's coating-line stoppages add up to 89 tonnes against a world market estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes a year.
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The bones were collagen-free, so the site's age came from radiocarbon on bone apatite. Two labs dating the sand around the bones instead returned 160,000 to 232,000 years, and groundwater chemistry is the suspect.
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Jutta Meier told Bloomberg that access to indium phosphide has become a risk for the whole chip industry, and her mitigation is broader supplier engagement in a market where the US Geological Survey puts 70% of supply in China.
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The 15.2 terawatt-hour total is the line that travels, but the usable part is HydroGenerate, downloadable and pointed at one dam, sizing a turbine to the water an operator is already obliged to pass.
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A study of 788 fires that burned into 499 western communities argues the fix is fire-resistant land next to town, and that a decade would do it if fuel-treatment money moved.
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A Landsat-based method estimates tides every 100 metres of Pacific coastline. Inside a single 90 km New Zealand bay it finds gradients that gauge-fed models cannot see.
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Electrolyzers and carbon-captured gas have both stalled on cost. The third option, digging hydrogen out of iron-rich rock, is now funded at scale but still unproven as a resource.
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A 2027 Colorado field test will try to show that quantum gravity gradiometry can rank targets before the rigs arrive. The site, the date and the success bar are all still unnamed.
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Whole-genome sequencing of brown bullheads from Lake Memphremagog found tumors that are clones of each other, not of their hosts. It is the fourth transmissible cancer known.
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